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Quotes About Judgment

There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.
~ Sophocles
You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
~ Sophocles
At this club, all I see is great backing all the way down for me and I will be judged on results like the next man. (on being Manchester City manager)
~ Stuart Pearce
I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn't do at all.
~ Sylvia Plath
No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.
~ Thomas B. Macaulay
By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.
~ Thomas Hobbes
It is impossible to find twelve fair men in all the world.
~ W. C. Fields
Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.
~ William Faulkner
Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what the other man or woman is doing.
~ William Faulkner
As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.
~ William Mathews
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
~ William Ralph Inge
The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man - say a Tennessee Holy Roller - is really very small.
~ H. L. Mencken
Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normal branch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that a man who needs a psychiatrist must be crazy.
~ Harry Segall
Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.
~ Jane Austen
A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.
~ John Dryden
To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.
~ John W. Gardner
A woman should never underestimate the power of the child in the man. Sometimes the child seems to be in the driver's seat at the very moment when all a man's adult judgment and insight is needed.
~ Joyce Brothers
Executive: a man who makes quick decisions and is sometimes right.
~ Kin Hubbard
Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.
~ Laurence J. Peter
When a woman weeps, it is a man's shame.
~ Leonid Andreyev
I never killed a man who didn't need it.
~ Clay Allison
If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.
~ Confucius
There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country.
~ Daniel Schorr